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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16h

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 23h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Spookyanna 🎃 @uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 1d

A noose was hung from a tree on the pathway to the “Black parking lot” in high school at the same that “Re-nig Obama” stickers were getting passed around, but I’m supposed to believe someone telling me that they had no clue that the Republican Party was steeped in racism growing up. Yeah okay.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 1d

Am I saying that *all* Young Republicans have always been this way? No.

But a substantial # of Young Republicans *were* radicalized in the 1990s. They may have had to try and keep their racism and bigotry covert, but that’s not the same as saying they weren’t racist.

Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 1d

This is generalizing based on personal anecdata.

The 1990s gave us a bunch of events that sowed seeds & the harvest is now. Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma…all carried out by “oppressed” white men.

And if you tell me these weren’t mainstream - well Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Limbaugh, Brooks Bros Riots

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I‘m staring at this post like I was a Black student in the 90s and 2000s and had to share a campus with racist Young Republicans

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

this guy is functionally unemployed so he shitposts all day bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 1d

Also, what he writes about the humanities is SO IMPORTANT TO HEAR!

"The true value of a liberal arts education is not learning a collection of facts, but learning how to learn."

Thank you David.

www.startribune.com/david-m-perr...

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education

He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

www.startribune.com

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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 1d

We are so lucky to have @lollardfish.bsky.social in the History dept at UMN and now we are even luckier to have his incredible voice and perspective as an Op-Ed contributor to the @startribune.com .

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education

He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

www.startribune.com

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Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 1d

Saying “retarded”, calling people “morons” and other ableist and saneist slurs, is still totally fine. Even amongst otherwise decent people.

As we watch special ed being dismantled, public health & Medicaid being destroyed… it’s especially painful to remember our erstwhile allies are still ableist

Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 1d

Something really struck me watching @willsommer.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss the “I love Hitler” chat

Tim was reflecting on all the casual slurs used in the “young” Republicans’ chat, and he censored all of them except “retarded”

youtu.be/UECVpqhCR_4?...

You MUST See This Leaked GOP Group Chat

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Small But Kinda Mighty @sbkm.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same guy who just called Hakeem Jeffries a “house slave” for Soros.

There is nothing light-hearted or good-humoured about these folks. Just racism, misogyny, ableism, anti-semitism…. Allllll the way down.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need